Does anyone have any ideas on how to get rid of headaches???

Question

Other than traditional medicine

Answer 1

Sleep, curl yourself up in your duvet if you can and rest for awhile, unbeatable headache treatment.

Answer 2

I took the massage therapy course and through it you learn enough that when you come out of the course you know as much as your GP (general practitioner)....
Here are a few suggestions and some common sense.

- go to a dark room (light only makes it worse, especially if it's a migrane)
- put a cold cloth on your forehead
- put an ice pack (preferably the gel ones and wrapped in a light towel) on the back of your neck (the reason is a headache is blood in your head, applying cold to the back of your neck draws the blood away from the head and thus relieving the headache...so they told me in school anyway)
- take a tylenol or advil and go to a quiet place to rest
- eat something (people can get headaches from lack of food/nutrition)
- drink water (could be you're body telling you that you need more nutrition and water)
- if you have kids, send them out of the house for a while to play at the neighbours or something..... get a quiet place...unhook the phone, turn off the tv/radio and just try to relax for a bit.
- try meditation (don't know if you're into that but I'm sure the relaxation of it would help)

Hope these help.

Answer 3

having a headache is a pain first you could be lacking in water . dehydration is a big factor we ignore, until we feel thirsty , then it is to late , so drink up . or it can be a headache from stress on the head if tour are needing glasses and ignore this fact. hormones can also play into headaches with the loss of estrogen. food allergies , and last too much a;alcohol. myself i try and not take medicine for the pain , in winter headaches can be from sinus infection so take a cold and sinus tablet and a hot drink relax all those electric passages in the head that take on too much relax with a cool cloth on the forehead does feel good and time hope you are feeling better identify the source first and then the cure

Answer 4

Exercise has actually been proven to alleviate headaches. The most proven methods include a pain reliever. If this is for a hangover, or dehydration, try water, along with some multi-vitamins. These are a surefire way to battle a headache. Of course not all headaches are caused by the same problem.

Answer 5

Headache is almost never located in the brain. There is actually not much ability at all to sense pain in the mass of the brain - surgeons do for instance not use anaesthetics on the brain when they perform brain surgery. Headache is almost always located in the muscles of the head - caused by tension built up during long time in these muscles. You can perform a simple self-test by pressing with your fingers on certain locations on the head.

The two most common physical locations of headache are located at the places where the jaw-muscles are attached, right behind the jaw below the ears and at the temples. You should not feel any pain if you apply pressure on these two spots (see illustration) and are completely relaxed. It will though hurt quite a lot I presume, especially at the spot behind the jaw - this is a condition that people in common sadly enough has gotten used to as something completely natural.
In many martial arts disciplines there actually are grips that takes advantage of these spots in order to neutralize or even paralyze adversaries.


Such tricks has no effect on balanced individuals. The cause of this pain is that you clench your teeth - stiff upper lip - and you need to do some exercises in order to put an end to that behaviour so that you can get rid of your headache at its origin. This is what you should do:

Be observant and never let your rows of teeth meet each other any other times than when you are chewing something. There's no need to go around gaping like a fish - it's easily achievable to keep your lips closed without letting the teeth meet each other - but a small ventilation hole makes things easier.
Open your mouth wide and rotate the jaws from time to time. Snapping, crackling and clicking sounds from the jaws are usually nothing to worry about, it might even hurt some in the beginning - but that will cease in time.
Shoulders in level with your ears? Drop them and make rotating movements with them. ...The shoulders, not the ears - but it did indeed look quite impressive I must admit.
Are you always knitting your brows? Stop that.
Tip your head slowly to the sides and stretch out the muscles of the neck.
To massage the aching spots works temporarily if you also at the same time try to figure out where you got to relax in order to get rid of the pain more permanently.
Exercise. The human body needs physical work. Nothing is better against physical tension than running uphill a ski-slope for instance. Painful in the beginning but a pleasure after a while when you realize that you can make it - and to be able to run up a ski-slope is self-esteem and prestige everywhere.
Drink enough water - but not too much. Headache is also often a result of dehydration, but also the opposite, that some nowadays drink too much water and thus dilute the nutrient fluids in the body causing abstinence of sorts.
Even headache due to abstinence can be partly cured with the methods above since abstinence headache caused by for instance lack of coffe mainly sits in the same tensed spots as described above. Headache due to lack of coffee is no reason to stop drinking coffee though. Coffee contains lots of antioxidants and it's also rumoured that coffee might work preventive against some neurological diseases, such as parkinson's for instance.

Answer 6

Look at what you're taking into your body in the way of toxins. If you smoke, quit, that's what did it for me.

Also, you should have allergy testing done.

Other than that, reduce stress, sleep 8 a day and eat properly, not too much pre-prepared/fast foods. They all have MSG which is well known to cause headaches.

Answer 7

As I have a busy life and most of my headaches turn into migraines, I don't have time to mess around with soaking in a tub or sleeping it off. Good old ibuprofen is my best headache cure.

Answer 8

Ok, maybe it works for you and maybe it doesn't, but everything is worth a try right???
Well when I was pregnant I had nasty migraines and I couldn't take certain meds. My secretary told me the same thing happened to her and she would take Vicks Vapor Rub and put in on her forehead, behind her ears and around, slightly in, and below her nose so that she would get the effects of the vapor rubs... I am telling you I tried everything I could do when I was pregnant, long story short, it actually worked.
hey it's worth a shot...

Answer 9

You may think this sounds stupid. Squeeze (pinch) the area between your thumb and index finger. You need to pinch and rub. This will not work with migraines. I am severe migraines to where I have to go to the ER and they get me a shot of Demerol. My migraines are so bad that they get me straight demerol and usually a full syringe of it. I will sleep for about 24 hours.
A cool dark very quite room works well.

Answer 10

It's a proven fact that sex can help get rid of headaches, it raises endorphins in the body and your headache goes away. That's why I can never use that excuse on my husband! :)